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Is mental activity like a poisonous snake? ?

If we don't interfere with a snake, will it just go its own way? Even though it is extremely poisonous, are we not affected by it? Do we not approach or grab it, and that is why it does not bite us? Does the snake do what is natural for a snake to do? Is that how she is? If you are wise, will you drop it? In the same way, what is not good for you that you allow it to be according to your own nature? Do you also put aside what is good for you? Don't get attached to like or dislike, just as you wouldn't interfere with a cobra? Will one who is wise have this kind of attitude towards the various emotional states that arise in the mind? When what is good arises, do we allow it to be good? Do we understand its nature? Likewise, do we let it be what is not good? Do we let you be according to your nature? Didn't we get it because we don't want anything? Do we not want evil? Don't we want good? Do we want weight or lightness, happiness or suffering? When our desire comes to an end, is peace firmly established?

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  • 3 weeks ago

    i'm not sure, but metaphorically it would be nice if mental activity it was the snake and its poison the antidote to convert it into facts.

  • 3 weeks ago

    It all depends if you have an illness.

    A snake does do what's natural.

  • 3 weeks ago

    I can think of 2 ways to apply this idea. One is that certain thoughts are nothing but a sick brain making an ugly noise, and there's no point in getting involved with them - suicidal thoughts and the obsessive thoughts that bother people with OCD. Dr. Jeffrey Schwartz, the OCD expert, talks about this in his book You Are Not Your Brain. Another way is with meditation. We cannot stop thinking say the mindfulness teachers, but we can keep from getting involved with our thoughts - we can calmly  let them come and go. Most popular app is Headspace. Best free one is Mindful Life Prpject.

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